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The Sabbath bell, That over wood, and wild, and mountain-dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
The Sabbath bell, That over wood, and wild, and mountain-dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Rogers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 510 · printed citation: Samuel Rogers · subject: SABBATH
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